Walmart: Meet with your Warehouse Workers

Following months of extreme tension, high temperatures, and intense pressure in a major Walmart-contracted warehouse, courageous workers – without having a recognized union – went on strike this morning to protest retaliation by their warehouse employers. They are calling for safe working conditions and that Walmart take responsibility for working conditions in the warehouse.

To date, Walmart has ignored repeated requests for a meeting to discuss safer working conditions. Now, the workers are asking for our support. Sign the petition to Walmart executives demanding they meet with these workers.

On Monday, September 17, our signatures will be delivered by workers to executives at Walmart in Los Angeles following a six-day, 50-mile march by workers from their warehouses.

Dear Walmart CEO Mike Duke, Board of Directors and Walmart Executives:

As supporters of warehouse workers who move boxes of goods destined for Walmart stores across the U.S., we are asking Walmart executives to meet directly with the workers.

Marta injured her back because of the grueling pace inside the warehouses and now she is unable to work. Limber works under dangerous conditions, forced to use broken equipment and at risk of dehydration because of inadequate access to clean drinking water.

The work is unsafe, injuries are common, and the pay is so low workers cannot make ends meet. Right now, the temperatures in Riverside and San Bernardino top 100 degrees daily and inside the metal containers the temperature can get up to 120 degrees. There is little ventilation and the heat and pollutants workers inhale can make them vomit and bleed from the nose. Workers face intense retaliation from management if they say anything about the conditions.

Workers have tried several times to reach out to you, writing letters and using the channels that Walmart provides in its “Standards for Suppliers.” Even after filing official complaints about health and safety violations and notifying Walmart directly about illegal working conditions, you have ignored these workers. But this is not an isolated problem that will just go away: there are thousands of warehouse workers in Southern California, Chicago, New Jersey and elsewhere who labor to stock Walmart shelves – all facing similar conditions.

We, who have signed below, are asking you, Walmart executives and Board members, to sit down with the workers to learn about their experience moving your goods and to figure out how you can ensure all of Walmart’s contractors and suppliers follow the law and live up to your own standards. Walmart, you set the standards for the industry; with a little good will, you can help ensure humane working conditions for thousands of warehouse workers in your supply chain.

Sincerely,

Supporters of the Warehouse Workers

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Number	Date	Name	Location	Share a comment for Walmart ...
2674	Sat Sep 15 20:05:46 EDT 2012	Nino Gonzalez	Dallas, TX
2673	Sat Sep 15 19:56:21 EDT 2012	GlendaRae Hernandez	South Bend, IN 46601, IN	Keeping prices low at the expense of the health and safety of your workers is unconscionable. Please their needs for safe working conditions.
2672	Sat Sep 15 19:51:42 EDT 2012	Chris Gallagher	Toledo, OH
2671	Sat Sep 15 19:16:46 EDT 2012	Anonymous	Dallas, TX	please listen to your warehouseworkers
2670	Sat Sep 15 18:24:34 EDT 2012	Brendan O'Kane	Sydney, ot
2669	Sat Sep 15 18:14:36 EDT 2012	Michael Moats	Downers Grove, IL
2668	Sat Sep 15 18:13:16 EDT 2012	Peter Ashe	Malden, MA
2667	Sat Sep 15 18:09:09 EDT 2012	Anthony Arcure	Fresno, CA
2666	Sat Sep 15 17:54:22 EDT 2012	Peter Benoit	Bridport, VT
2665	Sat Sep 15 17:40:02 EDT 2012	Anonymous	Tucson, AZ	As a member of a religious community of women, I am committed to people being able to work, to be justly paid for their work, and to work in places that are humane. Please meet with the workers for the More....sake of the common good.
2664	Sat Sep 15 17:12:57 EDT 2012	Doug Parker	OK
2663	Sat Sep 15 16:39:31 EDT 2012	Anonymous	Orono, ME
2662	Sat Sep 15 16:39:31 EDT 2012	Ray Lynch	Watchung, NJ
2661	Sat Sep 15 16:39:31 EDT 2012	Ray Lynch	Watchung, NJ
2660	Sat Sep 15 16:14:46 EDT 2012	Jeffrey Haslett	Williston, VT
2659	Sat Sep 15 16:06:03 EDT 2012	Jacob Hyden	Provo, UT
2658	Sat Sep 15 15:46:46 EDT 2012	dana marker	mechanicsburg, PA	oh please!
2657	Sat Sep 15 15:39:27 EDT 2012	Vicki Garrett	OH
2656	Sat Sep 15 14:28:34 EDT 2012	Mary Henaughan	Villa Maria , PA	Would you like to work under these conditions? Life is hard enough why make it harder.
2655	Sat Sep 15 13:36:12 EDT 2012	Murray Sampson	Seattle, WA
2654	Sat Sep 15 13:28:08 EDT 2012	Scott Gorn	New Britain, CT	Um, isn't this the 21st century? Enough with the war on working people already, it is rather sickening. Wal-Mart, scourge of the Earth.
2653	Sat Sep 15 12:32:42 EDT 2012	Shelley Eckert	Treasure Island, FL	These people work hard for their money. They should be treated like human beings. Wal-Mart can afford to treat them like human beings. Your greed is inexcuseable.
2652	Sat Sep 15 11:59:02 EDT 2012	Elissa Menconi	Dorchester, MA	I won't shop at Walmart until I see you treating your workers with the respect that they deserve.
2651	Sat Sep 15 11:49:59 EDT 2012	Wayne Perkins	ME	Better working conditions ,better wages and a recognized Union. I refuse to shop at WalMart and never will until they are a responsible company.
2650	Sat Sep 15 11:27:49 EDT 2012	angela fazzari	portland, OR

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